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In Kalasatama, near the port area of the Finnish capital, there is the largest shopping centre in Helsinki with its 64 thousand square meters and a total value of one billion euros. Situated in the REDI, the modern architectural complex designed by Pekka Helin is comprising eight red granite residential towers that rise on the metropolitan skyline. The new shopping mall – inaugurated in 2018 – is divided into five levels, one of which underground, it overlooks the seafront and has direct access to the metro to reach the nearby city centre. It hosts large shops such as Lid...

Majestic project for connecting the Muslim holy cities of Medina and Mecca is called the Haramain. It consists of a new 453-kilometre high-speed railway infrastructure that runs through the King Abdullah city in Rabigh, King Abdulaziz International Airport and Jeddah city centre. Overall, five extra large and modern stations in the Saudi Arabia coastal desertic regions. The Haramain was inaugurated in 2018 and will initially host about 60 million pilgrims, on board the cutting-edge electric trains travelling at a speed of 300 kilometres per hour.The area covered by the five stati...

Today let's talk about an important innovation. The wide Airtècnics range enriched with a new standard model: the ARIS air curtain. Provided with an elegant, contemporary and careful design, ARIS ensures effective climate separation. Airtècnics has specially designed this new air curtains for commercial openings. It is an high-customization model with logos, signs and lighting and also offers the chance of displaying decorative panels, information or safety instructions.  The ARIS standard air curtain is distinguished by a smooth steel front panel, with elegan...

A process to create and manage all the information on engineering, construction and 3D architecture project – before, during and after the construction: it is the Building Information Model (BIM), a digital description of every aspect of the constructed asset. It is an innovative encoding system of real-time information based on a virtual model that contains graphical information and data, which allows automatic calculation, adjustments and error detection. More and more designers are adopting BIM to encode the specification keys of each model, including documents that may be r...

The Airtècnics catalogue is always updated to meet the needs of our customers. We have redesigned one of our most successful air curtains belonging to the design range. The ZEN BB model is now adding to the design air curtains series, offering a ZEN air curtain version specifically designed for large doors. Featured by the same essential and elegant shapes as ZEN – but with larger dimensions – the ZEN BB air curtain is equipped with EC double inlet centrifugal fans, driven by the external rotor motor, low noise and minimum energy consumption level. Our new creatio...

An exclusive oasis is where the modern geometric architecture of the luxurious W Dubai The Palm hotel rises, between the Persian Gulf's water and wide private beaches. The innovative wavy shape project includes about a hundred thousand square meters accommodations, of which 300 hotel rooms and 45 luxury super duplex apartments, triplex apartments and attics. It is the first W Escape in the Middle East, located in the west crescent of Palm Jumeirah – an ambitious peninsular establishment made by man – enhancing the urban contrast of Dubai with the natural forms of local la...

An extreme challenge for technology, science and human knowledge has always represented by the climatic adversities at the polar regions of our planet. The Yamal peninsula, belonging to northwestern Siberian Russia, is a narrow land strip that stretches for 700 kilometres into the Kara Sea, or rather in the southern part of the Arctic Ocean. There the ruling vegetation is the tundra scattered among numerous lakes and streams, while the few inhabitants live in the main urban area of Novy Port.For processing raw materials, it has been built by Renaissance Construction – using...

The building was designed by the architectural studios Silver Thomas Hanley, DesignInc and McBride Charles Ryan to host the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Center (VCCC) in Melbourne. The new $1 billion hospital facility looks almost like a modern art museum, with the frontage’s metallic brightness crossed by an intersection of white lines. The thirteen-floors hospital includes a university research centre, surrounded by a public area of 1400 square meters verdant, where exotic and indigenous vegetation alternate. It is among the Australian largest hanging gardens. Over 1200 res...

Also this year, Airtècnics will be present at the prestigious IFEMA International Climatización Fair – that will take place in Madrid, from 26 February to 1 March 2019 – showing at the ‘Climatización Show’ its exhibition space on technological innovations for heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration industry. Energy efficiency and sustainability are among the key topics of this edition, along with innovative heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC-R) technologies. They will be the topics discussed in ...

The luxurious Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Center complex – also known as Kuwait Opera House – is inspired by the elaborate geometric forms of Islamic architecture that make up the rich ornamental exterior covering of each building. Contrasts of shadows and lights make the atmosphere of the spaces majestic and solemn, inviting a large audience in the precious building-jewel. Located in the capital Kuwait City, the imposing multidisciplinary space – whose construction has come to cost as much as 775 million dollars – occupies an area of 214 thousand square me...

The Nike flagship store recently opened in Milan is the largest store of this famous brand in Italy. It extends over three levels with a total area of 1342 square meters, located in one of the main Milanese shopping streets – in Corso Vittorio Emanuele II. Intended for a wide audience, from professional to amateur athletes, it hosts all the categories of the brand: Nike Running, Nike Training, Nike Football, Nike Young Athletes, Nike Basketball, Jordan, Nike Sportswear and Nike Women. In this modern and elegant shop, the entrance doors have a height of 4 meters.  This...

Air curtains create an invisible air barrier that in most cases is used to avoid the loss of temperature through any building opening. However, air curtains are used for many other applications. One of the most demanded application is to avoid the entrance of flies or other flying insects inside a building, as well as small rodents. Therefore to comply with this application, air curtains require very demanding characteristics in terms of power, performance and efficiency, thus very few air curtains can be used for this application. To offer an efficient solution to this issue, Airt...